Showing posts with label virtualization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtualization. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2010

VMware (virtualization software)

This is being republished from my other blog: MobileHealthComputing.com

Have you heard of the term "virtualization software" used in the context of health IT? I'm sure you've heard of cloud computing. Some experts have said that virtualization unlocks cloud computing. Many people still have misconceptions about cloud computing and may even confuse this phrase with virtualization. Grid computing (a form of distributed computing and parallel computing, whereby a 'super and virtual computer' is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely coupled computers acting in concert to perform very large tasks) deals with virtual machines.